The following instructions show you how to restore a site to a target destination by using Copy-Paste or drag-and-drop.
Guidelines for Restoring a site
• The following SharePoint 2010 database sites are not supported:
• Assets Web Database
• Charitable Contributions Web
• Contact Web Database
• Issues Web Database
• Project Web Database
• A Site Collection with the Office SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure Site feature is not supported when restoring SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010.
• Sites can only be copied to other target sites or a target data store root. If the site is pasted into the target data store root, you will be required to select the web application to copy the site. See Step 3 under “To restore a site.”
• If a site collection source site that does not contain a Leaf Name is copied as a sub-site in the target, you will be required to supply the Leaf Name before the copy can continue.
• If the site previously exists on the target, only the children of the site are copied.
• Sites dependent on specific SharePoint features will not function if the features are not enabled on the target SharePoint server.
• Site Quota’s for parent-level sites will not be copied.
• Site Quick Links are added at the end of a site copy. Therefore, some Quick Links may not be copied if you cancel a site copy operation before it completes. Since the Quick Links point to lists or sub-sites in a site, a given list or site may not have been created before you cancelled the operation.
• For site and list permissions, if a matching group exists on the target, the site or list will use the target group’s permission levels and users associated with that group. If the target group has different users or permissions levels than the source, the site or list will now use the target’s permissions.
• Only Site Collection sites can be copied to a target data store.
• Quick Links for sites that contain a Pages List (Publishing Site, Personalization Site, etc.) may appear differently after a site copy. Once a page type document (Page, Article Page, Master Page, etc.) is checked into a pages site, a Quick Link is added. Since Ontrack PowerControls for SharePoint does not copy the checked out state, items are assumed to be checked in. Therefore, additional Quick Links may appear after the site has been copied.
• During any copy operation (site, list, folder, or item) the target location’s parent Site Collection is checked for any write locks that are set. If the Site Collection has a “Adding content prevented,” “Read-only,” or “No access” set, then no data can be copied to any location within the Site Collection. These locks can be set via Application
Management>Site Collection Quotas and Locks in the SharePoint admin tool.
• When a Site Collection is copied from one domain to another, the user login information stored in the database may not be valid on the new domain.
Important: If no user login domains match between the source and target, you will have to use the SharePoint Central Administration tool to reassign site ownership since none of the copied logins will work.
Guidelines for Restoring Workflows
The following guidelines pertain to SharePoint Workflows.
• Started Workflows are not copied for an item. This includes the history and associated tasks for the Workflow.
• Workflows that are set up for a list are not copied. The history and task Lists are copied but the associations are not automatically setup. Manual setup is possible.
Guidelines for Restoring WebParts
The following guidelines pertain to SharePoint WebParts.
• Items that contain WebParts, which point to other lists within the site, may not function correctly if you cancel a site copy operation before it completes.
• All WebParts are copied to the target, but they may not function properly after they have been copied. Some WebParts store the path and IDs of lists and items they are pointing to.
Since new IDs are generated and allow you to copy data anywhere, the IDs and paths may no longer be valid after the WebPart is copied.
• If a WebPart is copied to same target location as the source, most WebParts will function properly since the paths are the same.
To restore a site
1. In the source pane, copy a site.
2. Paste the site into the desired location of the target pane.
3. If the source site is pasted into the root node of a target, the Select Site Collection URL dialog box appears. Select the web application and site collection URL and enter the primary site collection administrator information to copy the site.
Figure 5-2. Select Site Collection URL dialog box
• Select a Web Application: Select the web applications that are contained in the target server.
• URL: View the web application URL label. This is the base URL where the new site collection will be located
• Managed Path: Select the managed paths that reside in the target server for the selected Web Application. The contents of this list changes based on the Web Application selected. If you want to have a specific URL other than “/site/” for a Site Collection, you need to select a managed path.
Selecting a managed path with Explicit Inclusion allows a single SharePoint site to be created for the given URL, so nothing more is required. If you select a managed path with Explicit Inclusion, the Site Name field will be disabled. Note: This option may not be available if a site has already been created for the given path.
Example: http://servername:portnumber/Sales
Selecting a managed path with Wildcard Inclusion allows you to create further Site Collections under the specified managed path. When this option is selected, the Site Name field is enabled, allowing you to create the site name which is appended on the path URL. In this case you must specify a Site Name for the new site collection.
Example: http://servername:portnumber/Manufacturing/Group1 and http://servername:portnumber/Manufacturing/Group 2.
• Site Name: If this box is enabled, enter a site name for additional web site addresses.
Note: The following characters cannot be used in the site name: " # % & * : < > ? \ / { } ~.
The site name also cannot start with an underscore character “_”.
• Primary Site Collection Administrator (domain\username): Enter the domain and username of the user that will be the primary site collection administrator. This username must be in the Domain\Username format. Ontrack PowerControls for SharePoint will use this username to connect to the new site collection after it has been created.
• Password: Enter the password for the primary site collection administrator. The username and password are validated for the primary site collection administrator, so the site collection will not be created until the correct password is supplied for the site collection administration.
4. Click OK. The source site is copied into the target site.
5. In the Copy Progress window, verify your results to ensure that your sites were copied to the target destination. You can also print or save the copy report by doing one of the following.
• Click Print to print the copy report.
• Click Save to save the copy report as a text file.
6. In the Copy Progress window, click Close to return to the main window.